Fermented tea made from leaves of garden and wild plants (master class)

[Girls]

GirlsWho ever made tea from sea buckthorn leaves?

I added sea buckthorn to the village, I didn't do mono.

I now come across an expression on the Internet.
In Russia, it was considered healing fees from 3,9,12, and 14 herbs (took note).
In general, it’s so good here ... as in a large, friendly family. I am catching up with the topic and, in the meantime, rewrote myself. And I have already baked the loaf 2 times, and I plan to make ketchup tomorrow. I got grape sourdough, otherwise I can't make friends with hops since winter. (Well, of course, this is not the sourdough itself, but I didn't have any rye flour. Now I'll still find black bread and finally a blooper.

[Tata]

has anyone made tea from sea buckthorn leaves?

Tata, look in the notes. there is a link to sea buckthorn.

Girls, tell me, please, we can't find Ivan's tea, but a friend is traveling from Udmurtia, she needs to take the train for 2 days .... will she be able to bring me Ivan's tea leaves or will they disappear ??

[Yaso4ka]

Yaso4ka, the abyss will not be lost, but they will be great. Tea from them will not turn out as it should.

[Yaso4ka]

Yaso4kaNatasha Koval also lives in Kiev and makes Ivan tea. He says that you are growing a lot of it. Here is her profile https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&action=profile;u=115515;start=0 Ask her in a personal where she collects it.

Yesterday I made tea from black chokeberry. Here, during fermentation, it smelled very tasty, and when dried, I don't feel any smell. Can it still appear or should it be pleasant right away? )

If you read the recipe, you should remember that properly prepared and dried tea has no smell, it appears after "dry fermentation" in a month or two.

[Yaso4ka]

Yaso4ka, ask them to bring the rhizome, plant it and wake up with tea next year.

Yaso4ka, ask to bring the rhizome, plant it and next year wake up with tea.

Ask to bring some rhizomes! And the leaves will also survive in the car for a couple of days. Provided that it will not be hot in it, and if the leaves are wrapped the way they showed it yesterday. The package was sent to me from Monday to Friday. The leaves, of course, were not as fresh as they had just been picked, but the tea turned out.

Good afternoon everyone !! A few days ago I picked up raspberry leaves (I was cleaning young shoots in a raspberry tree) and garden strawberry leaves. Dried, spinning very hard. Suddenly it dawned on me! I began to add berries of irgi. The meat grinder worked more fun, the sausages began to come out gently and did not crumble. I twisted it again, set it to ferment for a day. The mass has darkened, turned brown. Dried in the "Veterok" dryer at 70 degrees. Today I brewed it. Tea has a tart taste, slightly sourness, barely perceptible. The color is good black tea. I was expecting a hint of almond, but alas! I liked the taste of tea, I have never had this. I will do more, try it too!

[LAKATA]

LAKATA, Larissa, thanks for the idea! I want a tart, dark tea. There are raspberries, strawberries, a little dirge berries in the refrigerator. Have a lot of berries gone? I have 200 grams in total. I'll go pick the leaves after I've mashed a cup of apples. So much summer work!

[LAKATA]

Suddenly it dawned on me! I began to add berries of irgi. The meat grinder worked more fun, the sausages began to come out gently and did not crumble.

LAKATA, I am very glad that you made the opening in person. Natasha Koval has already shared this method with us. And a link to her experience of twisting leaves with berries is on the 1st page.

Vasyutka-Natalia, I added a little berries, just to spin softer, but not dripping from the meat grinder.

lappl1-Lyudmila, I don’t assign this method to myself, I remember that someone had already done this, I was just reluctant to “rummage” through the pages. In general, I am grateful to fate that I accidentally got here on the site, and personally to you, Lyudmila, for your trouble with us. I am campaigning everyone for our teas. Once I watched a program about tea plantations and they mentioned that there are a lot of pests and diseases in the tropics and how all this is processed ... no one cares about our health. And in our country house only rain, to the detriment of their health, no one pours "nasty".

[Larissa]

Larissa,

nobody cares about our health

And no one should care about him. We ourselves must take care of our own health.
The tea industry is primarily the PRODUCTION of tea. Tea has long ceased to be a drink for the rich. And intensive production involves the use of "chemistry" in growing and "machines" in preparation. Imagine how much a tea that is grown organic and handmade can cost!
Collecting leaves in our gardens, we ourselves see that plants untreated with nothing from pests and diseases "give" us substandard leaves. I'm sure the same parsley is on tea plantations.

I here decided to talk about my tea exploits, I signed in the middle of the night and suddenly, all of a sudden, everything disappeared somewhere. Probably the text should be small? : girl_in_dreams: So dear tea-makers today, the report will not work again, I want to inform you that over the past 3 days I have made another 3 kg of tea (exactly kg). The latter made Ivan tea with a grape leaf, the granules were rather weak, then I added an apple tree there, the granules became a little denser. I brewed tea, it turned out to be a pleasant sourness. Today I put a bunch of leaves for withering, and among them are valerian leaves. I want to try to make tea with a sleeping pill effect, it might work (I have big problems with sleeping) I will round off, otherwise all my writing will evaporate again

[Melissa2]

Probably the text should be small?

Melissa2, Zina, why small? The more you write to us, the better. And better with a photo.
And so that the text does not disappear next time, write a story about your tea exploits first on your computer in the Word. And then copy your text into the message.

over the past 3 days I have made another 3 kg of tea (namely kg).

Very impressive! Indeed, a feat! You are a fine fellow!
In general, we are waiting for your story ...

[Vasyutka]

Vasyutka, lappl1, Radushka, girls thank you very much for your advice !!! I will use everyone !!! About rhizomes, so generally the idea is super! S P A S I B O CH K I)))))

[Ludmila]

Ludmila, please tell me, is it possible to make fermented Jerusalem artichoke tea?

Alexandra, try it and tell us
Mom brewed leaves for dad. But, it was not tea, but dried leaves.

[Melissa2]

Melissa2, Zinaida, I will repeat once again - the plants from which tea is made by fermentation, lose most of the medicinal properties. And if the plants are in the mix, then their properties can be reversed. If you want to help your health with herbal medicine, please harvest herbs in the traditional way and make up the fees. If necessary, I will help to compose.

[Alexandra S]

Alexandra S, I did last year, terrible disgusting, if you look for last year's posts in this topic July-August, there is even a photo. It smells of iodine and something else incomprehensible. I did not like.

[Alexandra S]

please tell me if it is possible to make fermented Jerusalem artichoke tea?

Alexandra S, I will add to what Oksana said that Jerusalem artichoke is not a plant that falls under the principles of choosing plants for tea. These principles are given in the recipe - availability tannins and tasty fruits... Although Jerusalem artichoke tubers are eaten, there are no tannins in its leaves (I specially googled it). So Jerusalem artichoke is not suitable for making tea.

: girl-yes: Thanks to everyone who answered, I will just dry Jerusalem artichoke.

[Ludmila]

Ludmila, my gratitude knows no bounds: girl_romashka: I made tea from fireweed according to your recipe - just delighted. Now I want to repeat this feat. The first tea was made from leaf, the smell was all over the house. It smelled like prunes to me. Now I've dried the tea leaves, but they still smell very strong, although it is written that the smell disappears. Now I want to make granulated tea, but I have a question - Do you need to grind the leaves in a meat grinder with or without knives? In some article I read that the knives should be removed. And in the recipes I did not find anything about it. Maybe I didn't read carefully. Thank you in advance for your answer.

[natalisorel]

natalisorelof course with knives, you want to make granulated tea. And I caught the smell of prunes once last year, since then I have never succeeded. Make and from the leaves of the garden-rustic, also very tasty!

[natalisorel]

natalisorel, Natalie, welcome to tea themes! I am very glad that you have joined us and have already made tea! Cook a lot more.

Do you need to grind the leaves in a meat grinder with or without knives?

Natalie, always with knives. You won't be able to do anything without knives. Apparently, you came across an article in which it is written how to make leaf tea using a meat grinder. Not only knives are removed there, but also grates. Leaves are crumpled more easily than with just your hands. But this is described for a mechanical meat grinder. It will be impossible to do this with electric (at least with mine).

Now I've dried the tea leaves, but they still smell very strong, although it is written that the smell disappears.

Freshly dried tea smells faintly, and upon further storage in dry fermentation, it re-builds up the smell due to dry fermentation due to a residual moisture content of 3 - 5%. So, you have done everything right. Congratulations!

[lappl1]

lappl1By the way, I already thought that garden leaves can be crumpled like that. No knives or grates. Especially frozen

Thank you very much Elena Now everything is clear about granulated tea I will make sure to make village tea, only now our cherries are all frozen this year, I will replace them with garden cherries, I think it will be fine

Oh, she answered Elena, and it turns out that Lyudmila is in touch

I made fireweed with a small amount of Virginia bird cherry - just wonderful! And try with blackberry or irga. My neighbors' cherries are also frozen, but the leaves are growing, and I will rip them off in the fall.
We are very glad to have such an active tea-making, welcome to our circle.

[Radushka]

By the way, I already thought that garden leaves could be crumpled like that. No knives or grates. Especially frozen

Radushka, I did that. But in all my mechanical meat grinders, the leaves either came out unwrinkled, or did not want to come out at all. In general, I gave up this business. And on electric ones - a different design, you can't grind without knives or without a grate. the only thing you can put a sausage attachment. It works, but I didn't like the result.

I will definitely make country tea, only now our cherries are all frozen this year, I will replace them with garden cherries, I think it will be fine

natalisorelRustic tea is a conventional name for teas in which leaves of ANY PLANTS are mixed in ANY PROPORTIONS. Even 2 components are already rustic tea. And the more, the better. Try it. And the bird cherry, I'm afraid, will get lost in the mixes. She turns out to be very weak mono. But as a filler - a cool option.

with a small amount of Virginia bird cherry, just wonderful!

Lenusik, we answer with a couple! I don't know what kind of smelly this is - the Virginia bird cherry. Then I'll google ... But the savage is also good ... then ... six months later (not earlier) ...

[lappl1]

lappl1, Lyudochka, these are bird cherry-berries of red color for her. The berry knits a little, but less than usual. Like crossed it with a cherry, if I'm not mistaken. The berry is slightly larger, the taste is incomprehensible.

[Oksanchik]

Oksanchik, Yeah thanks ! Well, I immediately looked at Yandex and was impressed! This Virginia bird cherry is good. Both beautiful and useful.This should be planted on the plots - and it will go into tea and create beauty on the site.

[Oksana]

Oksana, thank you, now at least I will know the name, what is growing at our fence. Itself did not bother to search. Last year I made tea from it, we must remember the taste.

My neighbor has a Virginia bird cherry tree. I have been fighting all summer with her shoots, there are so many of them ...: plach7: She even crossed the road, and she tightened everything there. Now I take young leaves for tea. While they were dried and dried, the smell of almonds was strong. I didn't feel it at all in brewed tea, I will wait after dry fermentation.

When drying, I also had a wonderful smell, I'll see what happens in the fall. Last year I shoved her into the village, so that it was the bird cherry-almond that I did not catch, but in the fireweed it might be more distinct.

[Larissa]

While they were dried and dried, the smell of almonds was strong. I didn't feel it at all in brewed tea, I will wait after dry fermentation.

so that it was the bird cherry-almond that did not catch the smell, but in the fireweed it may be more distinct.

Larissa, Lenusikprobably you need to make bird cherry and dry it like mint and pine. After all, she has this smell due to essential oils. But by the New Year, an almond smell appeared in my mono-bird cherry, although very faint ... Maybe it will also be with the Virginian one?

[lappl1]

lappl1, Luda, I wrote once about my first experience in making tea from raspberry leaves,
now I can send a photo. Is the color normal?

[YaTatiana]

YaTatiana, Tanya, great color! Tea looks lighter in transparent containers than in non-transparent containers. And you already have a very good color! Well done!

Oh, Luda, thanks !!! It is now in a jar, fermented

Hello girls! I read everything, managed to envy the super-tea-makers (in a white, in an amicable way) and also decided to report what I had done. Chaev did a lot and different. A little bit of everything. Fireweed (small-leaved and granulated), fireweed (K) + irga, K + apple (wild), apple (wild), cherry (leaf), pear, blackberry + apple + blackthorn, K + apple + blackthorn, raspberry, cherry + plum , sucker, K + pear, K + cherry + blackberry, K + cherry + apple + h. currant + linden + mountain ash, K + wild strawberry + cherry + currant.
I try to brew teas right after drying. Girls, I'm sorry, but I'm probably a complete loser, in general I don't understand anything about teas, I almost never drank them before (I like coffee, compote, juice, sl. Water, etc.). For some reason, I don't feel the difference between the teas. They smell great (and now they are getting better in jars over time), when I brew I expect the same aroma, some unusual taste, but they are not. I understand that this is tea, not compote, but when I read your reviews, you have sourness, and a taste of almonds, and sweetness, and caramel, and more, more, more. I don’t feel it. Teas are brewed strong, the color is dark, saturated. If I put more, then the taste of ordinary store tea (good) is straightforward, the strength is like "chifir", and if a couple of teaspoons for a teapot are 300 ml, then, for my taste, it is lightish and has no taste (I brewed the herb). No, there is no taste or smell of grass. There is simply nothing else. I am probably expecting a lot from these teas? Firstly, they have not yet infused, and secondly, I am not a connoisseur of tea and do not understand anything about them initially.
Although I really like the process itself. Yes, and the result, however, too. I will do it all the same! Thank you very much for teaching, listening, for advice and corrections.

[Guzel62]

Guzel62, if you are not a fan of tea, even store tea, it is difficult to grasp the nuances and differences in teas. This is what Trisha will write with us, you will spit out, just reading, and what her syllable is!
But it is necessary to make tea, a natural product, especially if you like this business, but more pills from greed will not help, anyway it will end quickly!

[elena kadiewa]

elena kadiewa, Helen, thank you! I do, I flatter myself that if I don't drink it myself (with my family), I will give it to my relatives and friends, and they will appreciate it. It looks and smells very good, the tea turns out to be very good (I don't brag, I just really like it), the granules are dense, even, black, dry, and they smell - !!!!!

[guzel]

I’m probably a complete loser, in general I don’t understand anything about teas, I almost never drank them before (I like coffee, compote, juice, sl. water, etc.). For some reason, I don't feel the difference between the teas.

guzel, everything is ahead of you! I can cite my husband as an example. At first, he also did not distinguish at all what the tea was from, although he likes good black tea from the store, we also ordered in England. And now he can tell which plants the tea is made from in his cup, chooses which one to brew for which mood. So drink it and it won't be enough! This season, my middle sister is hooked on her tea. Today I call her, and her daughter answers - and we have no mother for two weeks, she is at her grandmother's dacha, making tea. So people get involved, and that's good! Garden tea is both healthy and tasty. It’s nice to know that this is your job!

[guzel]

guzel

When there is a lot of different tea, it is difficult to immediately decide which one you want to brew.

Good day! Take another novice tea maker to the company. I've been reading the thread for the second week (I still haven't mastered it), and I've already made one tea. And although I read it all 150 times, I still have questions.

The first tea was made from grape leaves (Isabella wine variety). The leaves dried for almost a day, the humidity was high, then I twisted them and set them to ferment ... and then it was not clear. 4 hours I honestly did not look at the saucepan, and then sniffed every half hour trying to catch the "aroma". It smelled like a bath broom ... after 9 hours I could not stand it and put it to dry. Dried up normally, now hanging in a pillowcase, drying up. And the question is: do grapes always smell like grass (broom) or have I done something wrong?

Now raspberries and cherries are fermented, their smell is more audible.

[Guzel]

Guzel, or maybe you just do not brew tea correctly? Judging by the fact that dry tea has aroma and color, everything is in order with the tea. Maybe you do not pour in the tea leaves, maybe you dilute the brewed tea with boiling water? Maybe you insist a little? Or, indeed, you haven't made friends with tea yet. Let tea lovers taste your tea. what will they say?